If Big Mick's post is representative of the other Americans, most of you interpret this logo as a generic peace symbol and hadn't previously been aware of its origins.

Howard, once again I say that you have it right. This thread is now almost 5 days old and in the first five hours that was already becoming apparent from the posts of artbrooks, Jeri, and Bill D. Within the first 50 posts a number of other Americans including Ebbie and myself had chimed in with something pretty similar.

In my first post on this thread I quoted from and then linked to the CND website which stated that the symbol had gone around the world and the meaning had expanded:

Simpler to draw than the Picasso peace dove, it became known, first in the US and then round the world as the peace symbol. It appeared on the walls of Prague when the Soviet tanks invaded in 1968, on the Berlin Wall, in Sarajevo and Belgrade, on the graves of the victims of military dictators from the Greek Colonels to the Argentinian junta, and most recently in East Timor.

I think if you were to take a survey, intelligence of 'Catters is above any averages. Dumbfucks like myself may draw it down a lot but the it would still be well above the norms. Most American 'Catters would probably agree with the CND statement and your summation as well. On the other hand, I think it also probable that the average American would simply say, "Huh? I thought it was a peace sign thing.....One of those Hippie things from the 60's."

Either way, the folks at Google fell into one of those two categories and thinking they were sending a message of love and peace, used their little Christmas card drawing without any more thought than that! Obviously a mistake on their part.............

What set most Americans off, including me, was MGM's "if" comment. "If" MGM says so then I take his word he meant it so...........But "if" you use a phrase like that it generally implies the attitude that "Americans are ignorant, resource wasting, obnoxious, greedy, motherfuckers." We hear that a lot. Like most generalizations, it is based in truth but it paints a wide stroke.........one of which many are not a part.

Kinda' like "Yankee Doodle."   As Robert Wuhl once said, "We may not have been aware of the insult it was or aware of the Macaroni Club but we knew a good tune when we heard it!"

Happy New Year.....and be sure to try and post to the Worldwide Mudcat New Year thread.


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